Getting Your Foot in the Door: When You Don't Have a Leg to Stand on - Softcover

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Rob Sullivan (Evanston, IL) is a former vice president/senior consultant at Carpenter Associates, Inc., a retained executive search firm. Sullivan is a frequent lecturer on job hunting, career changing, and executive recruitment.

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Forget everything you've ever been told about looking for a job. Getting Your Foot in the Door offers effective and engaging information for organizing and highlighting your marketable skills, convincing an employer of your potential, and getting the ideal job offer--no matter how much or how little experience you have!

Not a one-size-fits-all, fill-in-the-blanks "get a job" guide, this step-by-step book walks you through the entire career search process. From self-assessment exercises to nuts-and-bolts guidelines for crafting an effective resume, fielding difficult interview questions, and negotiating the best package of salary and benefits, Getting Your Foot in the Door contains concrete rules for a successful job search.

"It is the best work on this subject I have ever come across. I even think some of the advice is applicable for life and not just an interview." -- Al Roehl, Executive Vice President, Leo Burnett Company, Inc.

"When looking for a new career, this is one book you should not put off reading." -- Rita Emmett, author of The Procrastinator's Handbook

"[Rob] Sullivan gives us facts, but also more than that; he gives us an intuitive and shrewd approach to marketing ourselves in a Dilbert culture." -- Asa Barber, "Men" columnist, Playboy